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1. 1800collect
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   So I am trying to get two different categories to display on my homepage. The blog is located in the /results/ folder. And on the home page I want to display two categories in different sections. One is a "portfolio" category and the other is a "news" category. I can easily display one category, but it gets tricky when I try displaying the second category.

   Here is the code I used for the first category:
   

   <?php
   define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
   require('results/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
   
   <?
    if (is_home()) {
   
   	  query_posts('showposts=1&amp;order=desc&amp;cat=18');
      }
   
   if (have_posts()) :
      while (have_posts()) :
         the_post();
   	  ?><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>" id="resultspage"><?php the_title(); ?></a><?
   	  the_content();
      endwhile;
   endif;
   ?>

   I think it's pretty straight forward.

   Now later on in the code I want to display the "news" category. So I do the following:
   

   <?
   
    if (is_home()) {
   
   	  query_posts('showposts=2&amp;order=desc&amp;cat=21');
      }
   
     if (have_posts()) :
      while (have_posts()) :
         the_post();
   	  ?><li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">
   <?php the_title(); ?></a></li><?
      endwhile;
   endif;
   
      ?>

   It still display the first category's post (18) and not the new category. What am I doing wrong? Is this possible?

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Use a get_posts loop for that 2nd one if necessary:

   http://www.daobydesign.com/blog/2007/07/modifying-wordpress-front-page/

3. 1800collect
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It looked like all I had to do was remove this code around my query_posts on my second version.
   

   if (is_home()) {
    query_posts code here which would work when the if statement removed.
   }

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